For more than 80 years, the Grant Park Music Festival has been Chicago's summer musical sensation, demonstrating that classical music, performed by a world-class orchestra and chorus, can have a transformative impact on the city.

Founded in 1949, the Aspen Music Festival and School is regarded as one of the United States' top classical music festivals, noted for its concert programming and its musical training of mostly young adult music students. The typical eight week summer season includes more than 400 classical music events, including concerts by five orchestras, solo and chamber music performances, fully staged opera productions, masterclasses, lectures, and children's programming, and it brings in 100,000 audience members. In winter time, the AMFS presents a small series of recitals and Metropolitan Opera Live in HD screenings.

Santa Fe Opera's mission is to advance the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a unique setting with a varied repertoire of new, rarely performed, and standard works; to ensure the excellence of opera's future through apprentice programs for singers, technicians and arts administrators; and to foster and enrich an understanding and appreciation of opera among a diverse public.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra on holiday ... since 1934. Tanglewood annually draws over 350,000 visitors. Each season offers not only a vast quantity of music, but also a huge range of musical forms and styles, all presented with a regard for artistic excellence that makes the festival unique.